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The winter snow storms are starting up a little late this year but soon icicles will be everywhere. Although icicles may look attractive hanging from eaves of homes they signal a more ominous condition known as an ice dam.

Ice dams are caused by poor roof ventilation and a warm attic space, and form when melting snow on a roof runs off and refreezes at the edge of a roof. Left untreated, ice dams can cause serious damage to your home.

Heavy snowfalls bring on ice dams quickly because of the snow's insulating properties. The reason why snow is an insulator is explained along with how to prevent and repair ice dams (including the use of roof rakes) in the tutorial Ice Dams: How to Prevent & Remove Them.

How to Prevent & Remove Ice Dams originally appeared on About.com Home Repair on Saturday, January 21st, 2012 at 01:13:30.

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Don't let a room in your house or apartment give you the cold shoulder. True, cold rooms can be a nuisance and cost a lot in wasted energy and money to try and heat, but there are several reasons for a cold room and a wide range of potential repairs that you can try. I'll show you how!

In the tutorial Cold Rooms and How to Warm Them I discuss various fixes ranging in difficulty from easy to more challenging. You'll learn about problems and solutions involving heating registers, furnace filters, thermostats, roof vents and insulation to heating system design.

How to Warm a Stubbornly Cold Room originally appeared on About.com Home Repair on Wednesday, December 28th, 2011 at 20:05:02.

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